Tuesday, February 7 – We had three stops around Yuma, AZ, that we wanted to visit today. First up was the Cloud Museum.
This is one of those unbelievably strange stops that have you saying over and over again, “This is amazing!” Situated on over 2 acres in nearby Bard, California, the Cloud Museum includes nearly 150 Model T's and Model A's, antique farm equipment, motors, small appliances, and other collectibles too numerous to mention.
The museum's owner, Johnny Cloud, drives around on his four wheeler answering questions. According to Johnny, he personally drove each of these cars into his museum, and all the cars will run if you add a battery and a little gas. To prove his point he cranked one of the nearby cars a couple of times and sure enough it started right up.
Model “T” Classis Pickup. 1917-1923. New: $365. 
Marsha found one she would like to take home. She couldn’t believe how little the pedals are.
1920 Ford Model “T”. Deliver Van Conversion. Johnny said this was his dad’s truck.
Just one of the nine buildings.
Ford “A” Pickup. 1930-1031
We spent a couple hours strolling through the yard and over nine buildings containing a never ending number of antiques.
Anyone remember owning a light like this one? Us neither.
This is the one for Paul.
A person could easily spend all afternoon in the museum and not see everything. The price of admission is $5 per person. The experience is well worth the price!
The drive out to Bard, AZ, is also interesting. About 30 minutes out of Yuma, we drove through acres and acres of farms growing lettuce, cabbage, onions, garlic, and other products included in the “Yuma salad bowl.” It is an interesting drive to see the fields being prepared, flooded, and the vegetables being picked. Millions of heads of lettuce and other vegetables! There are over 20,000 migrant workers employed working in these fields doing jobs we can't imagine anyone being able to perform all day long.
After harvest.
We will show you are other two stops in our next post.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see y’all back real soon. Have a great day!
The cloud museum is on our list while we are here in Yuma. Gotta do it. Thanks for the reminder almost forgot.
ReplyDeletesounds good, when we are Pilot Knob maybe a trip can be arranged. :)
DeleteLooks like Johnny Cloud has a gold mine with his museum!! He certainly has quite a collection and isn't it wonderful that he shares these pieces of history with people??
ReplyDeleteThose fields of green sure we're pretty!!
Mr. Cloud certainly has spent a lot of time collecting items. Nine buildings is quite a collection. Very interesting! Isn't the lettuce beautiful! You should have done the University Farm Tour while near by.
ReplyDeleteI need to go to that museum. Looks like a really cool place.
ReplyDeleteThe Cloud Museum is definitely on our list. We'd love that.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fascinating museum! So many things to see, you hardly know where to look! Seeing all the fields of produce was one of the best things about our stay in that area of California!
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